RDAI have designed the Hermes Boutique at the Hotel Lutetia in Paris, France. Hermès has entrusted the RDAI agency, which is reponsible for designing all the Hermès stores worldwide, with the design of a new space, singular and unexpected in Paris. Hermès is setting up shop in a swimming pool…An immense volume, empty. An impression more of space than of surface area. And now, at the end of a pro..
Check out Reiser + Umemoto’s latest win for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center in southern Taiwan. Working with Taipei-based Fei and Cheng and Associates, New York-based Ysrael A. Seinuk, PC and Hong-Kong based Arup, the new development exploits its waterfront placement as tumbling organic wave-like volumes cascade out toward the waves. The port terminal is an experiment of “dynamic 3-..
plexus no. 2: convergence + site specific installation + gütermann thread, wood and nails + 14' x 10' x 13' + 2010 from gabrieldawe
Beijing studio Sunlay Design have designed this building to house the headquarters for a technology park in Huainan City, Anhui Province, China. The building will consist of two structures – a tower block and a two-pronged cantilevered building – which will be connected by a glazed walkway on the second floor. The building will comprise a five-storey office building, an exhibition centre, an und..
We just received stunning photographs of the "Exhale Pavilion" (previously on Bustler), winner of the prestigious Art Basel Miami Beach/Creative Time 'Oceanfront' competition. This temporary outdoor public art pavilion during the contemporary art fair was a joint design effort of Phu Hoang Office (New York) and Rachely Rotem Studio (New York/Tel Aviv). Related news: Art Basel Miami Beach 2010: S..
plexus no. 3 + site specific installation at guerillaarts + gütermann thread, wood and nails + 12' x 6' x 16' + 2010 from gabrieldawe
We recieved this Urban Action 2010 by Dror Bill from the Bat-Yam Biennale in Israel. It focuses on the tension between the temporary and the permanent, between the planned and the experienced. The Biennale examines the occasionally tense relationships between the city’s attempt to create order through long-term plans, and the everyday chaos that is the product of that process. Our goal is to enc..
Spanish designer Javier Alejandre has created the Oddbod Chair. The chair plays at the boundary between an inert object such as a chair and to give life to this object. The formal inspiration are the weird sci-fi movies of the mid-twentieth century design and retrofuturistic organic design tendences. It´s made in rotomoulded PET and pine legs. from contemporist
Amsterdam designer Camille Cortet created these snake-like leggings by cutting triangular apertures into the fabric. Called Snake&Molting, the pattern changes as the wearer moves and the holes expand and contract. Above photograph is by Vincent van Gurp. The information below is from Camille Cortet: This project is part of the Transformations project. By observing animal transformations we under..
Icelandic fashion designer Una Hlin Kristjansdottir presented her first collection at the inaugural Reykjavík Fashion Festival as part of Icelandic design festival DesignMarch at the weekend. Called Royal Extreme, the label boasts silk fringing, wool pom-poms, lamb’s leather bags and stockings with plaits down the front. DesignMarch took place in Reykjavík 18-21 March. The following information ..